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Nelumbo

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Nelumbo

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Also known as Nelumbo genus

Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers. Members are commonly called lotus, though the name is also applied to various other plants and plant groups, including the unrelated genus Lotus. Members outwardly resemble those in the family Nymphaeaceae ("water lilies"), but Nelumbo is actually very distant from that family.

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Nelumbo is a genus of plants in the family Nelumbonaceae, commonly known as lotus. It belongs to the order Proteales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta within the kingdom Plantae. The genus is distinct from Nymphaea and has a taxonomic type of Nelumbo nucifera. Its fruit type is described as a drupe or aggregate fruit.

The genus is aquatic, inhabiting freshwater environments. It includes two species: the Asian lotus (N. nucifera) and the American lotus (N. lutea). While currently classified in Nelumbonaceae, it was previously placed in the Nymphaeaceae family. The taxon status is accepted, and it is listed on the Wikipedia Vital Articles Level 4 focus list.

Synthesized by Vinony from 43 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, PubMed, Gbif Occ, Encyclopedia of Life, Plants of the World, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Nelumbo

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderProteales
  5. FamilyNelumbonaceae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded19,131

蓮屬（学名：Nelumbo）是山龙眼目蓮科的一属，也是莲科唯一一個现存屬，有兩個種，分別是亞洲的荷花（N. nucifera）和美洲的黃蓮花（N. lutea），水生，花大而美麗。曾被劃入睡蓮科。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
161
With media
72
Family
Nelumbonaceae
Collections
YPM, HUDC, VMNH, FMNH, CM, MO
Recorded in
United States
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Research

1,058 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

16 sections
Contents
  • Description
  • Ultrahydrophobicity
  • Thermoregulation
  • Similar species
  • Taxonomy
  • Taxonomic history
  • Modern classification
  • Phylogeny
  • Species
  • Extant species
  • Fossil species
  • Etymology
  • Uses
  • Culture
  • References
  • External links

Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers. Members are commonly called lotus, though the name is also applied to various other plants and plant groups, including the unrelated genus Lotus. Members outwardly resemble those in the family Nymphaeaceae ("water lilies"), but Nelumbo is actually very distant from that family.

Nelumbo is an ancient genus, with dozens of species known from fossil remains since the Early Cretaceous. However, there are only two known living species of lotus. One is the better-known Nelumbo nucifera, which is native to East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and probably Australia and is commonly cultivated for consumption and use in traditional Chinese medicine. The other lotus is Nelumbo lutea, which is native to North America and the Caribbean. Horticultural hybrids have been produced between these two allopatric species.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nelumbo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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